August 14, 2008

The RXTE SOF's Realtime and Pseudo-production data retrieval site has moved. If you are looking for the SOF's Realtime or Pseudo-production data areas, the new, permanent sites are:

May 12, 2008

The RXTE Guest Observer Facility (GOF) has begun generating Mission-Long Data Products based on the standard data products (StdProds) from the PCA and HEXTE, for over 200 sources that have been observed many times with RXTE during its mission. These products combine all "good" RXTE observations for a given source, over the lifetime of the RXTE mission.

The mission-long data products are intended to give a researcher an idea of how much, and what quality of, data are available in the RXTE public archive for their sources of interest. They are not meant to replace the careful reduction and analysis by individual scientists, but rather to lead them towards data that will be suitable to their needs. Users should bear in mind that only a single point is included for an observation. And thus the impressive variability seen by many RXTE targets on short timescales is entirely overlooked in the mission-long data products.

April 30, 2008

A team of researchers led by Diego Altamirano has discovered how to predict x-ray bursts from the low mass x-ray binary system 4U 1636-53. For more information, see:

April 1, 2008

Two NASA scientists announce that a binary system discovered by RXTE contains the smallest known black hole - a 3.8 solar mass featherweight. The researchers presented their results at the American Astronomical Society High-Energy Astrophysics Division meeting in Los Angeles, California.

For more information, see:

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